GENERAL CURRICULUM SEQUENCE FOR CLINICAL GRADUATE STUDENTS

Students take the majority of required courses in their first two academic years. Some courses are offered every year, while others are offered every two years. Those that are usually offered every two years are denoted with an * below.

FALL

SPRING

First Year

Statistics

Cognitive Assessment

Learning* OR History and Systems*

Staffing (1hr)

Statistics

Personality Assessment

Abnormal

Issues, Ethics & Interviewing

Second Year

Evidence-Based Intervention

Learning* OR History and Systems*

Research Methods

Theories of Psychotherapy

Cognitive Psychology*

Developmental*

Third Year

Physiological Psychology*

Social Cognition*

Multicultural*

Elective

Fourth/Fifth Years

Elective

Elective

In addition to the graded courses above, students typically enroll in thesis/dissertation hours and clinical practicum hours each semester (and thesis/dissertation hours during summer). Students also complete an assessment practicum during the 3rd or 4th year as their schedules allow.

Electives (2 elective courses are required)

In addition to the courses above, students must complete 2 additional electives from the following:

Additional graduate-level statistics courses through the Pharmacy Department (in pursuit of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Applied Statistics; https://gradschool.olemiss.edu/gmas/), courses that comprise the Gender Studies graduate minor, or the African-American Studies Seminar (501) offered by the department of African-American Studies can be chosen as electives from other departments